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January 29, 2008
I was going to pass, given that I’ve already commented on the Santana situation, but who am I to buck the will of the people. Also, there have clearly been new developments. Thus, by popular demand (read: two of you), a breakdown of my thoughts on the Santana to the Mets trade.
Q: First, the [...]
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January 29, 2008
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Because some of you may not have seen this yet, and it’s absolutely priceless.
Beats the piss out of more steroid coverage, no?
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January 29, 2008
I have to be honest, when the Google Alert arrived saying “red sox trade for pitcher,” David Aardsma’s not exactly who I was expecting. To say the least. But Theo and the gang saw something in him, so I guess it’s worth a brief Q&A on the trade.
Q: Who the hell is David Aardsma?
A: [...]
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January 28, 2008
Though their popularity appears to know no bounds, I’ve convinced myself that the Red Sox need to create a quasi-official evangelist role. And that I should be the prototype for said role.
The end result of my latest recruiting efforts: a two year old Big Papi fan. Who have you brought over lately?
Ask [...]
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January 27, 2008
You’ll recall that I’ve previously suggested that Brian Cashman’s tenure with the Yankees may be in some jeopardy: I believe the exact phrasing was, “short-timer.” Well, I have news. Good news, at least for the constituency that is of the opinion that a Cashman-less Yankee organization is, in all probability, a weaker organization.
First, there [...]
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January 26, 2008
By now, you’ve all probably seen that the good folks over at Baseball America rated our farm system second to Tampa’s stellar stable. So we’ve got that going for us. Which is nice. And while my enthusiasm is tempered by the realization that should the Santana trade be completed we’d slide back south of 10th, [...]
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January 25, 2008
Over lunch today, I happened to mention to Alex that after looking at Matsuzaka’s strikeout rate, I was reasonably optimistic that the Japanese pitcher would step up and perform closer to the level of a #2 starter. At which point he asked the question I should have: what were his first half/second half splits?
That, ladies [...]
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January 24, 2008
A great many words have been written regarding Matsuzaka’s transition from Japanese league phenomenon to Boston Red Sox starting pitcher. Way too many, in all probability. So all that I will say regarding said transition was that it was more or less what I expected. A bit less consistent than I might have predicted, and [...]
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January 24, 2008
Following the $100M+ the Red Sox shelled out for Daisuke Matsuzaka last offseason, I - like many Red Sox fans - was besieged with claims from (jilted) Yankees fans that “we were just like them.” That by virtue of that single capital expenditure, we were at once on equal financial footing with the Evil Empire. [...]
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January 24, 2008
By now, most people are aware of the brutal start times for our season opener - which are, for marketing reasons that I don’t happen to agree with - being held in Japan. The A’s/Sox contests over there will begin at 6:07 AM, which is bad for the Boston folks, but positively brutal for those [...]
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January 23, 2008
Much like what two consenting adults choose to do in the privacy of their own bedroom, what one consenting adult chooses to put into his or her own body is something I generally would consider to be none of my business. When it’s a major leaguer, I’m marginally more concerned given the potential impact to [...]
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January 22, 2008
Look, if we end up with Johan Santana - and sign him - I’m not going to complain. Pick your metric, he’s been the best pitcher in the league for several years now…by a wide margin. And of course I’m just as geeked about the possibility of slotting Beckett/Santana/whomever in a potential playoff series [...]
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January 20, 2008
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Game 4: Lowell scores in the 5th, originally uploaded by guano.
Item #1: Mike Lowell’s wife’s name is “Bertica.” For serious. See the quote here. Wikipedia confirms, which is important as it’s Cafardo.
Far be it [...]
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January 19, 2008
Yankees phenom Phil Hughes had an interesting year last year, beginning the ‘07 season as the near unanimous top minor league pitching prospect and finishing it with a very respectable 4.46 / .235 BAA line in 72.2 innings, during which he K’d 58 against 28 free passes. All in all, despite some injury setbacks, you’d [...]
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January 19, 2008
Though the writing’s been on the wall for a while now, the occasional New Yorker still seems perplexed by Rudy’s also-ran status. Well, fortunately we have an explanation for you: it’s all about the Red Sox.
Well, ok, as John Stewart covers in the tail end of the video over on the Huffington Post, it’s [...]
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January 19, 2008
Like every front office in the league, the folks who call Yawkey Way home have their pluses and minuses. I confess to never understanding, as an example, the affection they had - for some years - for Julio Lugo, who is not a bad player but to me undeserving of that level of attention. Let [...]
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January 18, 2008
Or perhaps it doesn’t, but frankly I’m above such concerns.
Welcome, all of you, to the inevitable end state of a life more or less derailed by baseball. Born and raised as a Red Sox fan far behind enemy lines in New Jersey, for many years I suceeded in keeping the madness within at bay. [...]
